r/askanything • u/Kosher_Nostra1975 • 25d ago
Political Question Does this settle the rumor that Trump's dad paid for his SATs?
It's simple economics, folks.
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u/choopie-chup-chup 25d ago
Good fucking Christ I'm getting dumber just reading this
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u/scarr3g 25d ago edited 24d ago
The worst part (yes, worse than his absolute lack of understanding of how trade works) is the he obviously thinks that he is supossed to be in control of EVERYONE'S finances.
He isn't buying the bananas, the US government isn't buying the bananas. The people are buying the bananas. (well, the private companies that are selling the people the bananas are, but that is still, technically, the people.)
You know what IS losing the US money? Him literally giving trillions hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to Israel. The is the USA giving away our tax money. We get no goods, or anything, and they just get our money.
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u/Hail_of_Grophia 25d ago
He always says “we” or “America” will be rich, but we are not part of that “we”
I’m not making any money off data centers, tariffs or any of the other stuff
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u/HedgehogTop5524 25d ago
You didn’t earn $1 billion last year while in government office and ruling the free world?
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u/True_Protection6842 25d ago
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u/bscheck1968 25d ago
If that's a thinly veiled criticism of me, I won't hear it and I won't respond to it.
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u/Oliver_Holzfilled 25d ago
He figured out how we can all drastically lower our food bills. Stop buying food, you’re a billionaire before you know it.
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u/TheHappyDutch076 24d ago
Another easy solution is to devalue the dollar that much that the smallest bill will be a billion dollars. Then everyone is a billionaire
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u/RoyalMaidsForLife 25d ago
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!” -Wharton Professor William T. Kelley
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u/slatebluegrey 25d ago
You are trading $2b for $2b worth of bananas that you can sell for $2.5b. So your are actually gaining $500m.
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u/phirleh 25d ago
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u/RubFlatforMaxEffect 24d ago
i dunno, i think it can probably be distilled even further🤣
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u/Saltwater_Sunrise 25d ago
I graduated from Wharton; there is no way this man made it there legitimately
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u/LaVillaGrangioto 24d ago
Amazing how the admission standards change when daddy goes hard on the endowment fund.
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u/LrdoftheCharlesDance 25d ago
Mitch McConnell is a vegetable and he’s still got better brain function than Trump.
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u/Illustrious_Bad_2980 25d ago
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u/LaVillaGrangioto 24d ago
...who went on to become the dumbest goddam President that the WORLD has ever had.
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u/Rurumo666 25d ago
Yeah just shut down the economy and we'll save so much money LOL. Every MAGA is dumb as dogshit.
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u/Legitimate_Rub_355 25d ago
The Wharton School should revoke its own accreditation
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u/SmurfStig 24d ago
They should release his transcripts. He has threatened to sue if they do but they should do it anyways. Everyone with a functioning brain knows he is a moron but his ego cannot handle the embarrassment.
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u/xtalgeek 25d ago
You mean if I stop spending money at the grocery store and stop eating, I will save lots of money? It's just simsole economics.
Do Trump's advisors/acolytes actually act on this nuttiness without comment?
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u/redlancer_1987 25d ago
When your entire world view boils down to 'win' or 'lose' this is the economic policy we end up with.
The options are die hungry with money (win) or eat food by buying it (lose)
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u/Willthisaccountlas 25d ago
Essentially Trump views everything as a zero sum game (not the first person to note this). In trump world, mutual gain is not possible and for you to gain, I must be losing and vice versa.
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u/CaptainBlotto 25d ago
Jesus Christ. Did he actually say this? It's hard to tell for sure, anymore.
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u/Kosher_Nostra1975 25d ago
He said it yesterday when he threatened to cut off trade with Europe.
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u/CaptainBlotto 25d ago
We are so fucking cooked. I'm sorry to the rest of the world. I swear most Americans aren't this damn stupid.
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u/Sabbathius 25d ago
The sad thing is, Trump didn't actually say this about bananas. He can't actually formulate a hypothetical like that any more. What he said is "if we do 50 billion in business with a country, and we stop trading with them, we don't lose 50 billion any more, right?"
And what is even sadder, when he says "Right?" out of a dozen people in front of him, not the one has the spine or testicular fortitude to tell him "No, you moron, that's not how any of it works". Instead they just nod and smile, he gets positive feedback and just keeps on going. And that's largely why we are where we are today. We need to go back to hurting people's feelings if they're acting like this.
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u/Dex_Maddock 25d ago
Ugh. Thank you.
Everyone within earshot of such a stupid statement is just as culpable in my opinion.
Someone, please, grow a fucking spine and tell him to his face he's an idiot. Please.
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u/FN-Bored 25d ago
So this is why he thinks we’ve been getting ripped off by other countries for years, he’s fuckin stupid
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u/BetSquare7190 25d ago
A significant percentage of the population believes that a 1/3 pound burger is smaller than a 1/4 pound burger. They can be fooled by almost anything.
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u/MikeDPhilly 25d ago
His Wharton professor said he was the dumbest fucking student he ever had. Nothing surprises me about this man.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 24d ago
What the absolute fuck.
Has anyone done the maths on how much money your country will save if he just stopped breathing? Literally the only time and way this little trumpisim would actually work in the real world.
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u/Boomstrongdk 24d ago
Its simple stop using money and you have more money
https://giphy.com/gifs/AC1HrkBir3bGg
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u/ShotShelter7171 24d ago
Congratulations America, this is your president! This is the man fucking the entire world right now.
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u/Hypamania 24d ago
The fuckups that voted for him have been so sapped by conservative policies and their lives so mediocre, that the moment someone claims someone other than themselves has wrong them, they eat it up
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u/DaYettiman22 25d ago
from the movie "O brother, where art thou"...... you sir are dumber than a bag of hammers
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u/mezz7778 25d ago
Those people at the food store only give me what I pay for, which is ripping me off, so if I don't buy food I'm not in a deficit... So that's good.
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u/Worth_Fondant3883 25d ago
He's never eaten a banana in his life so I guess that makes sense to him?
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u/Tough_Letterhead_163 25d ago
I think hes saying we can grow those bannas at home and buy them from Americans without sending that money outside the country...but idk how realistic that is...
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u/KnittyBeard 25d ago
If we grow our own bananas and sell them to Brazil for 2 billion dollars, we gain 2 billion dollars and lose nothing! Right?
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u/Asymmetrical_Anomaly 25d ago
I can appreciate the explanation in monkey banana terms
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u/Moose5846 25d ago
I wish I could tell you how much I saved today by not buying anything.
Simple economics.
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u/djdaem0n 25d ago
This is Trump's 2IQ point attempt to understand the circular flow of income as it relates to foreign trade? What a buffoon.
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u/Fit_Low592 25d ago
Trump’s dad paid for a lot of things. How you graduate from Wharton with this understanding of economics must not come cheap.
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u/Donato_Romer0 25d ago
Coming from the same guy who thinks George Washington's Continental army took over airports? Should we be surprised at this point?
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u/BS2-Living 25d ago
The astounding thing isn’t that Code Brown has no fucking clue, it’s that the ‘Merica of today goes along with this shithead.
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u/Agile-Knowledge7947 25d ago
The problem is that he is incredibly stupid. Oh… and that he’s a Russian agent doing Putin’s bidding. Oh… also that he assaulted little girls.
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u/Exodys03 24d ago
Brilliant! We just stop trading with everyone and Voila! No more trade deficits. We can then take over Canada and Greenland and start growing our own bananas.
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u/TsumeOkami 24d ago
If this guy comes across as uneducated imagine how uneducated his supporters are
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u/AbjectLime7755 24d ago
You know some explain the banana thing to him and he still didn’t understand
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u/The_Aardvark_ 24d ago
If he hoestly believes this is how tariffs woks, then this is the reason the US is in the position it is in...
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u/renny1968 24d ago
Wharton must be so proud for him to show off the education that he received from their establishment.
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u/MusicGirlsMom 18d ago
A "Trump" will from here on out be the term for "useful idiot".
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u/Ok_Formal_8220 17d ago
I believe him, he was tops of his class at the Wharton school of business, just ask him, he will tell you
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u/Affectionate_Ant3350 16d ago
This statement explains how he managed to bankrupt six casinos. According to him, it was only four .
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u/Notiefriday 25d ago
The US is too poor to afford bananas?
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u/Implode_silently 25d ago
Wharton must be so proud. That old professor there awarded McDonald as, "The dumbest student ever".
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u/Greedy-Taro-4439 25d ago
Thats pretty dumb. If he actually said that. Thats really dumb. And makes no sense.
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u/Emergency_Target_716 25d ago
Money is just paper that's meant to be traded for foods and services. Sacrificing a good to save money just makes the money pointless.
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u/Vogel-Kerl 25d ago
You know if there was a scam, if money could help stupid little donny succeed in life, his daddy paid for it.
About the only thing he's actually earned are the RAPIST & PEDOPHILE labels.












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u/NeptuneOverlord43045 25d ago
It just amazes me that this guy publicly humiliates himself daily by telling us in no uncertain terms that he is retarded and has no understanding of economics and republicans just nod their heads and clap anyways.